you want a spendthrift, because of course you cannot be to generous with good oil."

from: The Wedding Officer

by: Anthony Capella

It truly takes a village to pull off a wedding!! And no ones needs to tell a bride and groom how much stress is involved in planning and pulling off a wedding. Im just here to say...it CANT BE DONE WITHOUT FAMILY AND FRIENDS!!! It just can't. Unless of course money is not an issue. But its all the more meaningful when family and friends combine forces and do all in their power to pull off a dream wedding. Here below we have a little documentation of all the effort that went in to Brian and Mericar's wedding...and of course we didnt capture all the behind the scene work. This is just the day of the reception/ring ceremony. And this post is just about the prep work...stay tuned for the party and ceremony.

Laying down on the job was expected...for Jenna and Clark...they had just arrived state side after a 3 month jag around the far east!! Beautiful women making beautiful paper flowers.

Clark enjoying a beautiful power nap.

Where is it written that wedding require Christmas lights...strung up all over!! ???
No ladder..no problem...we have Clark and Jenna...

Best man Blake...talent and patience...best friend ever!!!

Second mom Lisa...talent and skill!! Drove all the way to California to help!!! Bless them for ever!!!

Weddings are about the details...the never ending details!!! Steaming the veil..out darn wrinkles, out!! Best mission companion..."Elder" Hardy!!! Thank you for coming and helping too..with your beautiful wife!!!

Worked hard all day long and all night too!! Taking time to check in with family and friends and taking a load off the feet!! Thank You Kim and Sharon...for ALL your help!!!

Dare I say that there were thousands...or many hundreds of homemade egg rolls for dinner!!?? Dad and grandma cooked for hours!! Yum!!!

Mericar's mom...beautiful Mercedes...planned on feeding the masses with all the very best that Philippine food has to offer!! She cooked for DAYS!!!! Words cannot explain how fine the dining was this night!! DELICIOUS!!!!

I like living.I have sometimes been wildly,despairingly, acutely miserable,racked with sorrow,but through it all I still know quite certainlythat just to be alive is a grand thing.~Agatha Christie~

For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.~James Baldwin~

CINHIKERS DELIGHTFUL FAMILY

Mom and Dad/Joe and Pauline/Grandma and Grandpa/ Great Grandma and Great Grandpa

My other Mom and Dad/Bob and Ethel/Grandma and Grandpa/ Great Grandpa and Great Grandma

Rob, Chelsea, Lachlan, Olive, Knox, Jax

Joe, Natalie, Logan, Liam, Beckham and Evelyn

Anna and David Sherwood,Lucie and Benjamin

Clark

Brian and Mericar

The greatest adventureis what lies ahead.Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.The chances, the changesare all yours to make.The mold of your lifeis in your hands to break.

— J.R.R. Tolkien(The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again

Adventure is a path. Real adventure -self-determined,

self-motivated, often risky-forces you to have firsthand

encounters with the world. The world is the way it is,

not the way you imagine it.

-Mark Jenkins

GRANDPARENTING HEAVEN!!

Beckham

Evelyn

Every child is an artist.The problem is how to remainan artist once he grows up.~Pablo Picasso~

Liam

Only as high as I reach can I growOnly as far as I seek can I goOnly as deep as I look can I seeOnly as much as I dream can I be~Karen Ravn~

Logan

All our dreams can come true,if we have the courage to pursue them.~Walt Disney~

Olive

"Far away in the sunshine are myhighest aspirations.I may not reach them, but I can look upand see their beauty, believe in them,and try to follow where they lead"~Louisa May Alcott~